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How To Find A Princess Release Day Event Book #2 of the Reluctant Royals series, HOW TO FIND A PRINCESS, is out in just a few weeks! On release day, Ill be in conversation with Rebekah Weatherspoon at 7:00 ET. Well chat about writing queer romance, boats, and lots of random but entertaining things (since […]
Spring Fling 2020 Keynote Speech 7/25/20
I was honored to be invited to do the keynote for the Spring Fling conference, and though we all attended from the comfort of our own homes, it was wonderful getting to virtually see people! Here is my speech (I did ad lib a bit, but this is the [unedited] written version): Hi everyone and […]
Bulgom Pamplemousse of the Knights Doudou
Inspired by a tweet from Deanna Raybourn, I wrote a short story about the life Bulgom Pamplemousse von Bearstein, Johans teddy bear in A Prince on Paper. [Note: this is flash fiction and it has not been edited.]CW: grief, anxiety My name is Sir Bulgom Pamplemousse von Bearstein. I dont remember my life before Jo-Jomy […]
Author’s Note for An Unconditional Freedom (Loyal League Book 3)
It’s release week for An Unconditional Freedom, the last book in the Loyal League series! Below is the Author’s Note for anyone who’d like to read it without having to commit to the whole book. Author’s note: Writing any book has some level of difficulty, but among the books Ive written thus far, An […]
Release Day and Excerpt! HAMILTON’S BATTALION: A TRIO OF ROMANCES
Amazon: https://goo.gl/7RGnXV iBooks: https://goo.gl/Zrp5WL Kobo: https://goo.gl/YvRtEw It’s finally here! Hamilton’s Battalion, a romance anthology featuring stories from Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, and me! We are so excited about this book! Below you’ll find an excerpt from my story, That Could Be Enough. Summary: Mercy Alston knows the best thing to do with pesky feelings like […]
Lead Up to Daughters of A Nation: Let Us Dream
Hey! In case you missed it last week, Kianna Alexander, Lena Hart, Piper Huguley, and me have another anthology coming out! Our last anthology was linked by novellas about Juneteenth, and this newest antho features suffragettes finding love while changing the country for the better. The anthology will be released on November 1st (if you’d like to […]
Beyond Almack’s Handout
Here is the handout from the “Writing, Researching, and Marketing Your Non-regency Romance” panel we did at #RWA16. I will add a bibliography of helpful books eventually, but for now I’ll just add the best tip given during the panel, when someone asked Ms. Bev about receiving rejections from agents and editors who wanted her to […]
An Extraordinary Union Cover and RT in Photos
I realize that I never posted the cover for my upcoming historical espionage romance, An Extraordinary Union! I know I’m biased, but man do I love this cover! As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills […]
The Economic Impact of Non-Diverse Romance, Part I: The Quality Problem
(Disclaimer 1: this post is a general discussion of the romance industry. Personally, I’ve been lucky enough to work with an awesome agent and attentive editors and publishers, but many, many marginalized authors have not.) (Disclaimer 2: I know that publishing is hard for white romance authors, too, and that they also face rejection and income […]
Fangirl Fridays: Falguni Kothari
Welcome to the second edition of Fangirl Fridays, the post in which I present the awesome writers (and their awesome books) that generally leave me in this state while I’m reading: Today I’m fangirling over Falguni Kothari, whom I was lucky enough to meet at my local RWA chapter. Falguni is hilarious, and her books exhibit […]
Valentine’s Rewind Blog Hop: Catching Up with Sofie and Ivan
Hey! Today I have a really special treat: for the the Valentine’s Rewind Blog Hop, a bunch of authors are taking a look back at some of their favorite characters. This is one of the last stops on the blog hop, but if you need to catch up you can find the complete list of participating […]
Podcast and Re-release Cover Reveal!
Hey! So the last few days have been pretty exciting! First up: I was on the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books podcast! It was really fun chatting with Sarah, and so surreal! We talked about lots of stuff, but primarily the Romancing the Globe column I’m doing with the Romance Writers Report (RWR), where I get to […]
Fangirl Fridays: Melissa Blue
Hey! Welcome to the first installment of Fangirl Fridays, which is basically the blog version of me grabbing you by the collar and shaking you until you read the authors I think you should be reading. The star of the first installment is the fabulous Melissa Blue. I’ve been a fan of Melissa’s since I […]
TBR Pile, What’s Good? | November and December 2015
Talk about getting it in at the last minute! I couldn’t go into 2016 knowing that I’d internally squeed about books and hadn’t shared that squee with the world. Here are some of the books that made me happy to be a reader in the last two months of 2015. A Midnight Clear by Emma Barry […]
Talking First Chapters with the Ladies of First Draught!
So I’m still hungover from RWA (and not even from excessive cocktails!), which I still have to recap. I think my recap is basically this, though: This week I got to talk some writerly stuff with the women of First Draught (Julia Kelly, Alexis Anne, and Mary-Chris Escobar) as well as Lindsay Emory. You can […]
Lead up to The Brightest Day: Let It Shine
Happy Thursday! Thanks for checking out the last stop on our The Brightest Day blog tour. Lena Hart kicked things off with her post about Amazing Grace, her 1866 set novella featuring an unlikely love between a former slave and a Confederate soldier. Injured hero! Mail order brides! Love on a cross-country train ride! You […]
12 Days of Christmakwanzakah Blog Hop: A Mitzvah
Hanukkah Sameach, everyone! I want to thank Julia Kelly for being an excellent co-blog hop organizer/partner-in-crime, as well as all of the amazing authors who are participating in the hop. I’ve had so much fun reading everyone’s stories! To celebrate the first day of the festival of lights, I decided to write a short story featuring Sofie and Ivan, […]